Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold Famous Quotes & Sayings
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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense
what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway?
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing.
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way.
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute.
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.